skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The money printing that has been done because of COVID (that shows the economic damage) is many trillions of dollars, while the whole market cap of Moderna and BioNTech are in tens of billions.

The amount we're spending on productionizing vaccines is nothing compared to the damage the virus creates every day.

Businesses a failing every day, and when they go bankrupt they won't be able to come back.
And yet, the difference between Trump or Biden winning was only in the thousands thanks to the current system. That is, it's possible that if the 'rona and Trump's mismanagement of it didn't cause >400.000 deaths, he might've gotten a second term.
No shade here, just curious. You(?) created this issue for the 2019 financials and are circling back around for 2020. Is this something you do for other orgs/projects or is there something about matrix.org where you feel it is particularly important?
also that lieferando delivers a pathetic user experience (too many bugs and poor UX decisions to list here). I would love to see Wolt take over the Berlin/German market.
Autocracies are efficient only as long as they are correct. It certainly helps if they're lead by scientists and engineers, at least for some issues. But when an autocratic government is wrong, it's nearly impossible to correct it. And every government is wrong sometimes.

As much as I like China stimulating electric cars, there are a lot of issues they're handling poorly or are being downright evil about (Uyghurs, for example).
My parents live in northern New Jersey, about an hour away from NYC. For the first two months of the pandemic, it was impossible to get them food delivery. The wait times were exactly that a week or longer. Now it's fine. But it was so frustrating at it first.
The big issue for me is delivery times. When I order something the website claims is "in stock", it often takes weeks to be delivered. Clearly they don't have the item in stock, but are backordering it from somewhere else (usually Germany). That sucks so much. I am perfectly capable of ordering from Germany myself, and it is much faster than ordering from these faux "in stock" websites.

Not Amazon, though. They get it. Quick delivery is key.

The problem here for Wolt is to get an accurate (and I mean _accurate_) picture of what they can actually deliver very quickly. Most brick & mortar stores don't have the ERP to support that. They have no computer system that correctly tracks what items they actually have on their shelves. It's crazy, but it's true.

P.S. The above may be wildly different in different locales. I'm in Finland, where Wolt was conceived. I sometimes order lunch from Wolt but I have serious reservations they can pull this off with items that are back-ordered through a lengthy supply chain.
It is costly to switch context. I try to avoid it unless my boss directly asks me to. Even then, I try to wait until next day to do so.
Those who admit they are wrong are more trustworthy than those that don't.
Yes, I can chime in on that. And I'm also located in Europe, so...
Slide 1

Food delivery: A hyper competitive, low margin, man hour intensive, inventory rotting, logistical & insurance nightmare.
I can recommend "Seeing like a State" for more information about this. I don't think they are.

But I also don't think you can make sweeping generalizations about these things - they are statistical phenomenons, governed by a myriad of interactions. You'll find some things work better in a system that statistically would predict a worse outcome.

Unless you close your eyes for ideological reasons and pretend they don't exist. :)
My elderly next door neighbor died last year and one of the things she wanted me to have was a stack of menus frombher ocean liber trip in the mid-60's. She fondly remembered the voyage and the several months abroad taking g care of her "rich lush of an aunt".

I did keep the menus and they are actually quite fun to peruse.
to restrain capitalism in favour of what/whom? if you leave out democracy, the government no longer works for you, it becomes a power acting in its own interest just like the capitalists.
Yes, that's true. The UK government had always had some level of control at the beginning when the borders opened for so countries but the UK didn't make of this ability. Personally, I am biased as EU citizen in the UK but I think the EU has been flexible to the zero-sum approach of the UK during the negotiations.
Plenty of animals make mosquitoes (and their eggs) a big part of their diets (fish, birbs, spiders, and usually involuntarily, humans).
No, it was not Jitsu. Jitsu is based on MiragOS/OCaml, Erlang-on-Xen was also a Xen-based unikernel like MirageOS but was (as you can guess) Erlang specific. I think you can now find it at https://github.com/cloudozer/ling .
Your 'scientific standpoint' misses out the fact an average commercial aircraft has two orders of magnitude more people on board than an average car. Based on your deaths per hour stats we can reasonably assume the chance of fatality-inducing failure from a given flight hour is roughly two orders of magnitude less than an hour in the car.

When I'm boarding an aircraft, I care more about that than how many people would die with me.
Making themselves accountable != never missing a paperwork filing deadline.

I don't read it as GP arguing that never filing is OK because charity.
That's about the eruption of Tambora, another Indonesian volcanic eruption with drastic consequences, that occurred about half a century earlier.
Mass delusional groupthink perhaps?
The theory has one big problem, but you are misdiagnosing it.

> Why did you do X? Why, to show other people

Try this approach instead:

Would X ("a trip to Athens") happen if there was no perspective to ever mention X in any future communication between humans? (Yes/No)

In this take the theory can become verifiable with some work.

Alas, the assumption is that you know you'll be cut off from transferring* bits of information from your brain to other brains. As humans are very social, this is almost useless. In actual world, even if you're going solo to Mars one-way, you probably will communicate back to Earth and more colonists may come join you (think => social status). If I am sailing around the world alone, I can still expect to return and write memoirs. So the only remaining things are the most shameful i-am-never-telling-that-anyone personal secrets. And that's quite a narrow use.

So, saying that Ivy League wouldn't happen in <some out-of-this-world scenario where humans do not socially interact> is very impractical.

[*] I'm saying the theory doesn't judge whether the signal (the information that flows) is to be trusted or untrusted. I think most commenters here wrongly conflate "signalling" with "slightly lying".
How-To Integrate Plausible Analytics with Next.js and Vercel
Those are data-protection fines.

AFAIK, Giving OK to Facebook buying WhatsApp was mostly an Antitrust issue.
An in places where there is relatively little competition because the big players have focused on juicier targets. In the Baltics for instance Wolt is doing quite well.
Cool, excited how the market will grow in Germany/Berlin. I really prefer Wolt over Lieferando in Germany. The user experience is way nicer, you have pictures of the meals which you want to order. The only thing which I miss is that you can't filter directly for vegan/vegetarian meals.
Then hopefully suffer more than 45 minutes of guilt for the externalities of your decision, including the likely fact that your delivery person is not making a living wage. Why not walk to your neighborhood store and buy something from a fellow citizens in your own community? Bonus points if you manage to find a replacement for an import made by a local company.
As with most things, you need to find a balance between the two. All-or-nothing is rarely a good approach, no matter what you're talking about. Everything taken to extremes turns bad.
Cancel Culture Comes for the Moderates
YouTube Web App gains PWA install prompt
Hi folks - we submitted The Matrix.org Foundation accounts via our accountants to UK Companies House several months ago. It's unclear why they're not showing on record; we initially understood it to be due to Covid delays, but we're now chasing the accountants to out find the specifics. If there turn out to be any fines due to late filing, these would not come out of donations, but whoever's fault it actually is for the delay (i.e. the accountants).

Sorry for the drama, but this is not reason for panic.

(Separately we need to publish a summary of the accounts for https://matrix.org/foundation, which we are indeed running late on: it's been hard to prioritise it when we're on fire trying to improve Matrix's mass-market usability, given stuff like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25812536).
Thanks for chiming in!

Sadly cohttp is (or was) performing so bad that it is kind of at odds with using it on a unikernel.

This one is quite a bit faster:

https://github.com/inhabitedtype/httpaf
Would covid have been made in the wuhan lab without computers?
Ah yes, eugenics. Worked great for the US' native population.
"couriers are paid fairly well" - Any references?

From what I've heard this is not the case. Actual data would be nice.
It has a bunch of tricks to compress the metadata, yes.
You can also get results as json.
A hello world unikernel was reported to take 4 ms a few years back (http://cnp.neclab.eu/projects/lightvm/lightvm.pdf). Here's a more recent project: http://www.unikraft.org/ .
Food apps are extremely popular in central/eastern eu, here in Czechia the local DameJidlo is also a largely successful company. Wolt is now becoming a serious competitor to them, they already have a much better app.
There's a few people out there like that. Like giving sight or hearing back to people who lost it (especially at a young age). Martyrdom-by-proxy?
Yep, in that case you could use an indirection vector containing, for each key k, the offset to the first byte of k.
This is what is typically done in B-trees, where the indirection vector is stored in the header of a disk page.
It's described for example in Section 3.3 "Variable-length records" of Goetz Graefe's "Modern B-Tree Techniques".
They're not being displaced, they're multimillionaires. California's population is decreasing because they're not allowing people in, nor are they letting their own children live near them.
Plenty of small city cars to choose from too: Renault Twingo electric, Skoda CITIGOe, Volkswagen e-Up, Honda E...
EUV machinery was delivered to TMSC by a firm from The Netherlands.
No, there is not a heavy cost. It’s just a perception and myth to keep more people reliant on Facebook.
How Social networks will evolve post pandemic
There are lots of commercial aircraft that don’t meet certification requirements without some form of artificial stability enhancement (yaw dampers being the classic example). There’s nothing inherently wrong with this kind of thing - you just have to get it right.
I couldn't find any information what differentiates them from any other similar service?
Hmm, seems like your take is more correct: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
FaceTime, Facebook messenger/instagram video calling, Google hangouts or whatever their new chat and video app is called, and since 2020 Zoom as well got a lot of home user adoption.
I am assuming you are either from here as well, or know about the country. Please tell me what would Indian Govt do if Zuck simply tells them they will get a tap installed at a place of their choosing as well?

> Mandate the exclusive use of privacy-friendly IM platforms

Ah no, you definitely are not from here :-) (no offence meant)
The coronavirus doesn't kill people, it's their own organs shutting down that kills them.

Honestly did you spend more than half a second thinking before you typed this reply? You don't need to be a "well ackchyually" pedant on the internet all the time.
> Pyston is a faster and highly-compatible implementation of the Python programming language. Version 2 is currently closed source, but you can find the old v1 source code under the v1.0 tag in this repository.

Yes, it does seem that it's incomplete and only documents v1 of Pyston.
Setting up a media server with Jellyfin
Stuffers are a very low level part of the webserver. I had no idea they exist until now. It's better to link to https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/run.html

I'm running the webserver so the T.A. in my department in the university choose they preferred building/course/day/hour to work. They are ~400. The first year I was worried that the server would collapse or something. Now I assume it is working unless I get many angry emails. (I don't remember the last time I had problems, most of the emails are about changes in the available courses and other administrative stuff.)

Back to stuffer, you can use the default stuffer or just ignore that stuffers exist at all, unless your site is huge.
Answer: I have a time machine. If that means anything, it means I can go back to yesterday and decide not to go to the store. Otherwise what is it? Some kind of television into the past?
Basically you have a document with all the references to objects, and if you remove the reference the object will be deleted after a certain timeout (you can set it for your specific case).
Upzoning doesn't stop you from living in your home, but it does allow you the personal choice of turning it into an apartment, and it denies people the right (which they apparently think they have) of having the same views of the beach and some parking lots they've had since 1950.
Seems awfully convenient that the universe would look identical to us in particular, as opposed to any other observer. Or being computronium.
You should see some of the taxis at the rank here at Newark airport, they're much more dangerous than the Max.
Transcript：
https://moryton.blogspot.com/2007/12/computer-revolution-has...
Absolutely.

They will almost certainly have to pay someone eventually to do their accounts so this is genuine waste of scarce resources.

Plus if a charity can't do things that it is legally required to do then that's not a great sign.
Unmitigated, the forecasts are around 5°C in this century.

Unimitigated, the forecasts are around 3-7 feet sea level rise this century.

Both of these massively increase the probability of non linear disasters including the release of methane from permafrost and ocean floors, or the disruption of the Gulf stream which would disrupt global agriculture even worse than a 5 degree temperature rise.
Only if ASML in The Netherlands allows it; they control the most critical bits of Taiwan's fab tech.
Or we could have the same effect without any direct terrestrial detestation or massively expensive projects.

https://news.mit.edu/2020/reflecting-sunlight-cool-planet-st...

Even then it’s incredibly risky and a bulletproof scientific model is needed to understand exactly what would happen before anything large scale is done.
PGM is platinum group metals for me, just another naming collision.
Stop with the bogeyman conspiracy. The working class prefers low unemployment and high salaries over losing a few percent on a checking account. Inflation is generally good for workers and bad for owners of unproductive capital. Yeah, sure, owners of productive capital benefit, but only by employing workers which is a net loss compared to getting free money without productive investments.
Hi, author of the article here.

Really interesting points, thanks. Your comment made me realise that I failed to point out an important underlying argument of the article: Product Roadmaps ≠ Release Plans.

Goal of a roadmap = Communicate the most important objectives for the product team (therefore should be based on and closely tied to the company’s strategy)

Goal of a release plan = Communicate what features are being release next and when, so that other functions can plan accordingly

Only both of them together provide a comprehensive view over what the product team is working on. What most stakeholders need to know is “What comes next” and “when”, so they can plan their work accordingly. So the mistake we (Product Managers) make is to start putting feature requests and due dates on our strategic roadmap. And this is exactly where the problems with roadmaps are created, as described in the first part of the article.

With regards to putting “all the things in the roadmap that people want to hear, forget about it, and continue working on what you were working on.”, I would strongly advise against that for three reasons:
(1) It encourages Design by Committee
(2) The other teams will have a hard time trusting a product team that puts their requests on the roadmap but consistently fails to deliver on them. It’s better to create a shared understanding of where their requests fit in the overall strategy.
(3) And, as redwood pointed it, it poses the risk that sales will sell roadmap commitments that you can never deliver on, which decreases trust with customers.

Curious to hear: How would you expect the product team to communicate their objectives and progress to the rest of the organisation?
They are the main food delivery in Slovenia and have pretty much completely taken over incumbent due to the better service and better quality application.
Wolt does pay couriers decently, and carbon compensates deliveries. And the order comes from local shops.
> Similar to how the internet forced governments to back off on censorship laws, cryptocurrency has the potential to force the political class to rethink current financial crime laws and liberalize people's access to money.

Or it has the potential to force the political class to rethink current financial crime laws, and tighten up P2P loopholes cryptoenthusiasts are exploiting to make their product more attractive to ransomware developers, to the detriment of everyone else who just wants to avoid photocopying their passport every time they send money to their friends. I wonder which is more likely.
Revenge killings are rare because perpetrators often don't walk away and if they do you might not walk away. There areas in my country where there are vendettas spanning generations.
>Please note that OTR is no longer considered safe crypto-wise...

I could not see any discussion of the deficiencies of OTR in the titles of the OTRv4 sections. Could someone direct me to a reference? This is the first I have heard of this. I thought OTRv4 was all about usability.
do you google jokes..?
This is a good list of the incidents precipitating this event, if you don’t have time to read the thread: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Camerfirma_Issues
One key thing I like is that no social product induces a totally new behavior. Facebook enabled everyone to publish his thoughts (post news feed) and then Insta allowed everyone to be a photographer, while tiktok did the same for video creators. Clubhouse is disrupting podcasts in the same way. This was written pre Series B announcement of Clubhouse.

I am optimistic we will see even better social products in this decade. More privacy focused, closer to offline experiences. Its not just how -the decentralization - that is changed, but also the why of why you go on a social app.
MIT's hybrid electric plane concept captures its own harmful pollutants
"evolutionary" humanism would say so.

Mind you, the Nazis were followers of this branch of humanism so take from that what you will.
> If senior engineer X is working on Y and other engineer M has already dealt with Y (unbeknowst to X), it's a great chance for X to say "I'm currently looking for a solution to Y" and for M to say "Oh I had to solve that same problem last month!"

I personally hate stand-ups. We do get benefit out of them, but I think it also leads to people waiting for the next standup to communicate instead of fostering a culture of communicating more pro-actively.

In your example: why wait for a standup? Why not just drop a message in slack saying "working on Y and not sure how to proceed; any ideas?"

Personally, I don't see the need for standups as long as the team is open about sharing blockers as they come up instead of waiting for the next standup cycle.
On request from Apple, YouTube took down the Apple II commercial this fan-blogger embedded into their post. /sigh
Ask HN: What can JSON do that HTML can't?
Just wondering, if HTML is indeed a data format, with some extra rendering stuff as a bonus, is there anything that JSON can do that HTML can't?
I've updated the Github issue with the last update from our accountants on this, after we already chased them in November: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/2378#issueco...
If this interests you, then you might like to check out Samalas eruption.

Krakatoa eruption has a Volcanic Explosivity Index(VEI) of 6, 1257 Samalas eruption[1] has VEI of 7 apart from massive death toll, the resulting ecological disaster is now expected to have played a major role in ending the Mongol empire and collapsing several others in Asia. Severe droughts, famine followed up by extraordinary rains during this period has been recorded throughout the world.

I personally believe that's what lead to the end of Chola Dynasty(A Tamil empire spanning Southern India and SE Asia from 3rd BCE to 1279 CE)[2]. Although academic texts generally attribute to the end of Chola empire to the victory of long rival Pandya empire in wars, it's a common knowledge among Tamil people that it was drought induced famine[3] which ended the Chola and such famines generally do give an edge to the rival empires leading up to wars.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1257_Samalas_eruption

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chola_dynasty

[3]https://www.jstor.org/stable/44140197
The automotive domain definitely use them (e.g., Open Synergy and others), since their efficiency means they consume fewer resources on ECUs, and their relatively small Trusted Computing Base (TCB) not only reduces exploits but also means certification is cheaper/faster.
> "third largest producer of civil aircraft, after Boeing and Airbus" (Wikipedia)

Is that By number of planes?
> Democracies don’t have corruption?

They sure do, but the distributed leadership means there's hopefully someone pushing against corruption, even if it's inconvenient for other goals of the government. Even if they don't succeed, at least they keep shining some light on it. (I'm looking at your Aussie government blocking the anti-corruption group)

> Democracies don’t become self-serving?

Same. There's always going to be some inefficiency, but the closer we are to actual democracy and the less biased it is, the better it seems at ejecting the self-serving members of the government.
The styled-components happy path
They're also present in Central Europe but they're in no way the most popular.
According to various sources Finnish couriers charge somewhere between 13-14e per hour as contractors (They are not employees but self-employed entrepreneurs)

To give a reference point, cleaning contractors typically charge around 30e per hour.
Like I said, if you continue studying Japanese you'll be continually exposed to them which will make them stick.

By "learn them in a day" I meant one day of decently focused effort to memorize the syllable for each kana character. Between flashcards, pronunciation, and writing it is very doable because that's what I did.
It's funny, in Sweden I've been having the opposite experience. Local stores almost always specify if they have stock accurately and what the lead times are if not, and delivery is usually as quick as specified.

Amazon usually comes in a bit cheaper but comes from Germany or the UK. Since brexit everything from the UK is taking weeks.
How does data synhchronization and conflict resolution work in CondensationDB? I expected to see something about OT or CRDT since it says it can be used for building collaborative applications such as Google docs (something like Docs is not possible without OT or CRDT).
Renewable energy is cheaper, so cheap that some people on HN sarcastically suggested to use renewable energy to extract oil from tar sands.